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Single drive RAID faster?

Started by CyberSlag5k Jun 1, 2004 at 1:13 PM 3 replies 250+ views

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Jun 1, 2004 at 1:13 PM

I have a single 120GB 7200RPM PATA100 HDD and my motherboard has onboard RAID. My buddy tells me that even though I have a single drive (and so I obviously I can''t stripe) if I run it through the on-board RAID controller it will be faster than the regular IDE channels. This doesn''t seem to make sense to me and I did some searching (googled "single drive RAID" and checked a few hard drive sites) but haven''t really seen anything on this. So is it true or is he a bit confused? Thanks! When you find yourself in the company of a halfling and an ill-tempered Dragon, remember, you do not have to outrun the Dragon...

Jason Zelos

Jun 1, 2004 at 1:30 PM

Tell him he''s an idiot, you cannot use raid with one disk. At best you can use the onboard controller as a normal IDE controller with similar speed. The only difference would be if its a caching controller.

Jay

kryat

Jun 1, 2004 at 2:50 PM

..Unless your RAID is an ATA100 and your onboard IDE Controller is an ATA66...

then you will see a performance increase simply by using the RAID controller, rather than the standard IDE channels.

Check the mobo specs.

[edited by - kryat on June 1, 2004 3:51:40 PM]

etothex

Jun 1, 2004 at 2:53 PM

quote:
Original post by kryat
..Unless your RAID is an ATA100 and your onboard IDE Controller is an ATA66...

then you will see a performance increase simply by using the RAID controller, rather than the standard IDE channels.

Check the mobo specs.

[edited by - kryat on June 1, 2004 3:51:40 PM]

My mobo has PATA133 RAID and PATA100 regular ide. But it doesn''t make a difference if you have a regular ATA100 drive anyway.

CyberSlag5k

Jun 1, 2004 at 3:12 PM

Got it. Thanks.

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